We have two judges that will render their decision by Friday. The third vote comes from you, the readers. We ask that you read both stories objectively, and then leave a comment below or on the story itself. Authors are not allowed to comment on their own stories, but we’re sure they’ll be checking in here. We’ll tally up the totals and announce our champion on Friday.

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The Writer’s Arena has created it’s first Arena Cliche: “this week is going to be tough on the judges”. So far, I don’t think the judges have had an easy week. None of the writers ever phones in a story and it’s us readers that win, week after week.

This week, for example, I was forced to choose between one story that I thought was very well written and showed the skills of a talented writer, and another story that was very well written and showed the skills of a talented writer. Geez, people! Help us differentiate by something other than narrow and purely subjective margins!